OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	1967
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	1480
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	238
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	217
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	194
Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression During Transitions to Separate Sexes in the Silene Genus	179
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?	170
An Evolutionarily Conserved Laterally Acquired Toolkit Enables Microbiota Targeting by Trichomonas	117
Highlight: Ancient oceans, New skeletons—innovations in silicon transport shaped sponge skeletal evolution	102
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	88
Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia	77
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	75
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	75
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	71
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	64
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	64
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	63
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	55
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	54
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	54
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	53
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	52
Using drift coefficients as a basis for inferring times, effective population sizes, and genetic adaptations	52
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	50
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	49

Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	47
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	47
The Demographic History of Populations and Genomic Imprinting have Shaped the Transposon Patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	46
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	45
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	45
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	45
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	45
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	45
Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites	44
The Scorpionfly ( Panorpa cognata ) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	44
Adaptive evolution of odorant receptors is associated with elaborations of social organization in ants	43
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	43
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	41
Genetic Differentiation is Constrained to Chromosomal Inversions and Putative Centromeres in Locally Adapted Populations With Higher Gene Flow	40
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	40
From Adam's rib: the Siberian moth's female W chromosome is derived from its Z counterpart	40
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	40